Just in time for the Holidays, we have released a new batch of Bitter Minnesota Gift Certificates! $75, $150 and $300 gift certificates can be used to book a spot on any of our all-inclusive daily Public Tours, now running 7 days a week. You can check out the schedule here. Purchasing is easy: visit [...]

Toronto, Montreal, New Jersey, Madison, Topeka, Portland - we've had customers from all of these cities and we love them all! Typically, out-of-towners do their research before they even get here. They to try to find the activities that help them learn more about Minneapolis, that are also safe and fun. Bitter Minnesota often comes up at [...]

Every year City Pages staff sits down and puts together a comprehensive list of places we love and things we like to do in the Twin Cities. The 2015 list was just released and we browsed the Food & Drink section to see what breweries and brew trends made the list. Best Brewery Minneapolis 2015 - Indeed Brewing [...]

We take pride in showing off local breweries to newbies and we often get asked about taproom etiquette. Breweries are often very busy and to navigate them could look challenging for first time visitors. To help with that, MN Beer Activists sat down with servers from 8 local breweries and put together a list of 13 Things Your Taproom [...]

Want to have a scary good time this Halloween AND enjoy local craft beer? We have just the thing for you! The Northeast Brewers and Bitter Minnesota are proud to present: Choose your Own Adventure Halloween Brewery Crawl, happening on Oct 31, 2014, 7-12 p.m. Start at any brewery and hop on the Bitter Minnesota Brewery [...]

We were not surprised to hear that 6 Minnesota breweries won awards at the 28th annual Great American Beer Festival. After all, we do have exceptional beer here. According to Minnesota Business Magazine, out of 1,309 breweries and brewpubs involved, Minnesota-based Badger Hill Brewing, Bent Paddle Brewing, Indeed Brewing, Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery, Steel Toe [...]

According to Pioneer Press, Sisyphus Brewing, the brewery that will sport a stage for live comedy and music, is set to open at noon July 11 near Loring Park in Minneapolis. The brewery will operate with a small, two-barrel system and will feature a rotating selection of beers. There are no plans for the brewery [...]

The Line just published a piece about the Twin Cities brew boom. It's a great article, especially for those just learning about the explosion of craft breweries and the impact on local economy. In 2013, 14 new craft breweries fired up fermenters and taproom operations. A dozen or so more have—including Day Block Brewing Co. and The Freehouseon Washington [...]

Congrats to our friends at Dangerous Man Brewing Co for being featured in Food and Wine magazine's article about 6 Awesome New Breweries Around the U.S. Here's what else they had to say about the "outrageously good" brewery: Set in an old bank in Northeast Minneapolis, Dangerous Man Brewing Co. has a taproom made partially [...]

MPR today released a great story on the Minnesota taproom boom . The Heavy Table's James Norton and MPR News' Tom Crann recently paid a visit to HammerHeart Brewing Company in Lino Lakes, Minn. to talk about the taproom trend (hear their conversation here). The Nordic- and Celtic-inspired brewery, which opened in 2013, resembles a hunting [...]